The digital art showcase’s third edition, at Art Basel’s hometown fair, offered much-needed historical context while prompting a fundamental question: who is this for?

In this week's episode, Ben Luke speaks to art market editor Kabir Jhala about this year's Art Basel, interviews artist Pierre Huyghe on his exhibition at the Beyeler Foundation, and learns about a new Skyspace by James Turrell opening in Aarhus, Denmark.

Plus princess throws some fade and airport show takes off

In her first solo exhibition in Switzerland, at Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart, the artist’s films and installations chart the evolution of our relationship with technological capitalism

The exhibition at Basel’s HEK showcases artists whose work responds to “unstable and apocalyptic” times, drawing on religion, myth and ritual

The lawyer and president of the friends of the Kunsthaus Zürich discusses her enduring love of Philip Guston’s work and her regret at missing out on a Rothko

Curated this year by MoMA PS1's Ruba Katrib, Art Basel's large-scale sector has a monumental air

Plus: P•P•O•W's stand stays hydrated and Katharine Grosse's fabulous football

This year's fair, in the Offene Kirche Elisabethen, also features works on its walls

Co-curated by the artist Trevor Paglen and the digital art director Eli Scheinman, the new strand, which debuted at last year’s Miami Beach fair, aims to address the scepticism towards the medium

A $35m Picasso led first-day sales, while galleries reported strong seven-figure results across both historic and contemporary material

The Dutch collector, whose Museum Voorlinden is celebrating its tenth anniversary, tells us about missing out on a Louise Bourgeois spider and swimming in the Rhine

Kunstmuseum Basel show traces the early history of queer art and artists, from the time the word “homosexual” was coined

Museum that honours the famous kinetic artist Jean Tinguely turns its attention to the often undervalued role of women in the workplace, through a show of films, paintings and other pieces by 36 artists

The artist, who won a medal in the 2025 Art Basel Awards, discusses the work she has created for the Messeplatz, and why she wants it to have an “afterlife” after the fair

A new fellowship in memory Kouoh, who tragically died in 2025, will support emerging curators, writers and cultural practitioners with funding from Art Basel

The boutique dealer-run fair intends to return for 2027

Plus a museum interrogation and fairs tip population over the edge

The artist best known for his banana and duct-tape creation brings five works to the satellite fair

The bronze work is presented as part of Parcours, the fair's public art section

The exhibition's curator, Stefanie Hessler, picks out some of this year's highlights

More than 200 galleries have held back works that will only be unveiled to the public on the fair’s opening day

Art Basel may transform Basel during its annual summer spell, but the city’s art ecosystem exists long before the fair and its many satellites arrive—and continues long after they leave

The usually restrained London-based collector, who grew up in China, can make decisions rapidly when she sees something she really responds to

As he recovers from a brutal physical attack, the artist talks about his Münsterplatz commission and why it is important to preserve the memory of objects that have a complex history

For her show at Kunsthalle Basel, the Chinese-born artist has drawn inspiration from the online videos of amateur storm chasers and how they are a metaphor for the current media landscape

The gallery is bringing together the Weimer-era artist's paintings held in private American and European collections